Library of Arabic Literature Books in Order
Series Information
49 Books
Reading Order for Library of Arabic Literature
| Book Title | Year | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Mission to the Volga (By: Ahmad ibn Fadlān) | (921) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 2. Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī (By: Al-Hariri ,Michael Cooperson) | (1122) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 3. Leg Over Leg: Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) | (1855) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 4. Classical Arabic Literature (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder) | (2012) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 5. The Epistle on Legal Theory (By: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i) | (2013) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 6. Leg Over Leg: Volume Three (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) | (2013) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 7. The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume One (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) | (2013) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 8. Leg over Leg: Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) | (2013) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 9. Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume One (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) | (2013) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 10. The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume Two (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) | (2014) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 11. The Principles of Sufism (By: ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah,Th. Emil Homerin) | (2014) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 12. The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad (By: Mamar Ibn Rashid,Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem,Sean W. Anthony) | (2014) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 13. Leg over Leg: Volume Four (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) | (2014) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 14. Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume Two (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) | (2015) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 15. Consorts of the Caliphs (By: Marina Warner,Ibn al-Sai,Shawkat M. Toorawa,Julia Bray) | (2015) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 16. What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: or, A Period of Time, Volume Two (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) | (2015) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 17. The Sword of Ambition (By: ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 18. Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 19. Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 20. A Treasury of Virtues (By: Rowan Williams) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 21. Risible Rhymes (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad Ibn Mahfuz Al-Sanhuri) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 22. The Life of Ibn Hanbal (By: Ibn al-Jawzi,Garth Fowden,Michael Cooperson) | (2016) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 23. Accounts of China and India (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) | (2017) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 24. Disagreements of the Jurists (By: Devin Stewart,John Sexton,al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān) | (2017) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 25. Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd (By: Hmedan Al-Shwe'ir,Marcel Kurpershoek) | (2017) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 26. What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, A Period of Time (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 27. In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 28. In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 29. Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad (By: James E. Montgomery) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 30. Arabian Romantic (By: Abd Allaah Ibn Subayyil) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 31. War Songs (By: Peter Cole,Richard Sieburth,James E. Montgomery,Antarah Ibn Shaddad) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 32. The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (By: Terence Cave,Abu Bakr Al-Suli) | (2018) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 33. Stories of Piety and Prayer (By: Julia Bray,al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 34. The Excellence of the Arabs (By: Jack Weatherford,Ibn Qutaybah,Sarah Bowen Savant,Peter Webb) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 35. Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah (By: Luke Yarbrough) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 36. The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 37. The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 38. Light in the Heavens (By: Al-Qadi al-Qudaʿi,Tahera Qutbuddin,Paul Hinder) | (2019) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 39. Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook (By: Claudia Roden) | (2020) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 40. Impostures (By: Abdelfattah Kilito,Al-Hariri) | (2020) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 41. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (By: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni,Mario Kozah) | (2020) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 42. The Book of Charlatans (With: Humphrey Davies,Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī,Manuela Dengler) | (2020) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 43. A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) | (2021) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 44. The Book of Travels: Volume One (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) | (2021) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 45. The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Paulo Lemos Horta,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) | (2021) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 46. The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One (By: al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī) | (2021) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 47. The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (By: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt) | (2022) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 48. Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition (By: al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir) | (2022) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
| 49. Kal?lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice (By: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ) | (2023) | Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk |
💡 Reading Tips
For the best experience, read the Library of Arabic Literature series in the order shown above. Each book builds on the previous story and character development.